Journal of World Englishes and Educational Practices (JWEEP) ISSN: 2707-7586 DOI: 10.32996/jweep Website: https://al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/jweep/index 16 Complex Deictic Centers, Projections and Context Deictic Centers in Al-Araff Verse Bushra W. Ali Department of Statistics, University of Sumer, Alrifaee, Iraq Corresponding Author: Bushra W. Ali, E-mail: mrsouda1978@gmail.com ARTICLE INFORMATION ABSTRACT Received: September 12, 2020 Accepted: October 16, 2020 Volume: 2 Issue: 5 DOI: 10.32996/jweep.2020.2.5.3 The study examines the deixis in the Al-Araff verse selected from the Holy Quran, especially the complex as a new type of deixis. The content analysis of deixis is time, place, person deictic centers, context, and deictic projections. The results show that we can guess a new type of deixis which is the complex deictic center of person because so many words in Arabic language are able to hold two references for two words, this is in complex word that can be named as complex deixis. Moreover, time and person deictic centers become a deictic projection at some places, and we have place and time deictic centers which are context deixis that can be predicted by the general atmosphere. The deictic centers of place are divided into high and low deictic centers. Also, the deictic centers of time are divided into beginning and end deictic centers. The person deictic center is divided into good and bad deictic centers. Using Levinson’s ideas and divisions about deictic center can be presented in this sense. KEYWORDS Deixis, Deictic Projection, Deictic Context and Complex Deixis 1. Introduction 1 Holy Quran communicates with the readers through different linguistic forms by expressing the meaning of the context in the Quranic discourse. Deixis is one of them. The benefit of deictic forms lies in the fact that the Quran’s basic function lets readers know the creation fact and the message of the devil’s indocile to devilish a man as an evidence for God existence. That honest creature can be a devil too, just like Ebleas. This is clearly guessed by the deictic projection. But, God gives His word that earth is for good man. The war started since the creation of man till the rescuer time who will secure all mankind. In this context, we should know a brief idea about deixis. It is commonly known as an aspect of language that requires a reference. Deixis are divided into person deixis, place deixis, and time deixis. This is according to Levinson’s (1997) thought of deictic centers, but, the study limits on complex, context, projections and what we have biked by Livenson’s deictic types of person, time and place deixis centers. Then, the researcher tries his best to find out the types for each one by the verses’ analysis of Al -Araff Quran verse. 2. Literature Review What do we mean by the linguistic term deixis? It can be defined as a phenomenon that can be managed to recognize the meaning of words or phrases using the contextual meaning. Deixis is a word which can take some kinds of its meaning from the utterance which is used by the speakers (1997) for example نا(in يل ما تشكرونها معايش قلنا لكم في جعلrefers to a good person (هاin فيهاrefers to place يل قلdeictic word refers to a bad person . All these references help the reader to identify the meaning by context. Linguistically, Lyons (1977) states that the term “deixis” comes from Greek word means (indicating) which is used in linguistics to indicate the function of pronouns, tenses, and other lexical and grammatical features. Lyons adds; deixis means the identification of activity, person, object, and event. These can be talked about relating context, that specified by the speech act and the applicant. Published by Al-KindiCenter for Research and Development. Copyright (c) the author(s). This is an open access article under CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)